PAL Robotics has launched the TIAGo Professional Arm, a standalone robotic manipulation platform aimed toward researchers engaged on robotic studying, synthetic intelligence and bodily AI.
The Barcelona-based robotics firm is presenting the brand new system at IROS 2026, being held from September 27 to October 1 in Pittsburgh.
The seven-degree-of-freedom arm relies on ROS 2 and ros_control and incorporates PAL Robotics’ Sequence Elastic Actuators. It’s designed to assist manipulation analysis starting from early experiments via to deployment.
Researchers can use the arm as a hard and fast standalone system with totally different mounting configurations or mix it with cellular platforms, together with PAL Robotics’ TIAGo Professional OMNI Base, to research cellular manipulation.
PAL Robotics says the open platform additionally helps integration of further sensors, permitting analysis groups to configure it for areas together with notion, robotic studying and AI-driven manipulation.
The corporate will reveal the TIAGo Professional Arm alongside developments from its wider TIAGo robotic household at IROS. PAL Robotics may even focus on its ongoing work in humanoid robotics, together with the KANGAROO platform.
The launch follows PAL Robotics’ participation within the ultimate occasion of euROBIN, Europe’s Community of Excellence in AI-based Robotics, on the European Parliament in Brussels.
PAL’s KANGAROO humanoid demonstrated its locomotion capabilities on the occasion, whereas TIAGo Professional was utilized by Inria’s Hucebot crew in a multi-robot “Breakfast Cleanup” demonstration.
4 robots collaborated on clearing a breakfast desk, with TIAGo Professional figuring out perishable meals, opening a fridge, putting the meals inside and shutting the door. One other PAL Robotics TIAGo robotic, operated by IST Lisbon, sorted garbage from the desk.
The occasion introduced collectively 15 AI-based robotic methods and representatives from European analysis organizations, business and authorities.
Francesco Ferro, CEO and co-founder of PAL Robotics and president of euRobotics, says: “Europe must proceed investing in robotics, and take essential selections within the years forward, to make sure we preserve a robust manufacturing base within the continent that may construct on the unbelievable power of our analysis.
“It is a wake-up name: we have to cease fragmenting our efforts and begin collaborating round actual European wants, constructed on European values.”
PAL Robotics was based in 2004 and develops humanoid, cellular manipulation and repair robotics platforms for analysis and industrial functions.
